Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A bill signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday makes cursive instruction mandatory for some elementary students.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on this valuable skill. Endless Opportunities, a youth ...

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading away over time. But if you know how to read cursive, the National Archives could use your help. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, as the National Archives are ...

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping and curving their letters together.

Since Missouri does not require cursive writing education, one of our viewers wants to know: Is cursive writing dying?

Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or documents, but programs such as Docusign have even made this ...

At a local restaurant, Terrell Whittington and wife Chelsea revived a recent conversation about their childhoods and academics at Gary’s now-closed Ernie Pyle Elementary. They began discussing those school days with their waitress who told them her ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive had graceful loops that people might not expect ...

ATLANTA — In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out on the streets and put people’s cursive ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, we typically write in print format, but I remember a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – LSU Shreveport graduate student Mik Barnes has a problem that many young college students in the United States are experiencing, too: he can’t read cursive. “I’m a history major,” said Barnes. “One of the times it ...